Belgium Ambassador To Pakistan Frederic Verheyden, Iftikhar Discuss Issues Of Mutual Interest

Belgium Ambassador to Pakistan Frederic Verheyden on Wednesday visited the Pakistan Sports Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PSGMEAS) and discussed issues of mutual interests and bilateral trade between Belgium and Pakistan.

SIALKOT, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Apr, 2018 ) :Belgium Ambassador to Pakistan Frederic Verheyden on Wednesday visited the Pakistan Sports Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PSGMEAS) and discussed issues of mutual interests and bilateral trade between Belgium and Pakistan.

The Belgium Ambassador announced full technical assistance to promote and develop the SMRs sector in Pakistan, saying that Belgium wanted to establish strong mutual trade ties with Pakistan. He stressed the need of making all out sincere efforts to establish strong trade relations between Pakistan and Belgium.

Belgium Ambassador added that Belgium was much keen to boost the mutual trade ties with Pakistan, pledging to make efforts to remove all the hurdles from the way of promoting the mutual trade between both countries.

He said that it is high time to do more for further increasing the mutual trade ties between Pakistan and Belgium. Belgium Ambassador also assured to make all out sincere efforts from Belgium to increase the mutual trade volume in favour of Pakistan as well, saying that Pakistan business community should ensure maximum exports to Belgium and other European Union Countries through Belgium by taking the full advantages of GSP Plus status to Pakistan.

He said that the Pakistani businessmen would be welcomed in Belgium. Frederic Verheyden invited the Sialkot exporters to divert their business activities to Belgium, saying that the Sialkot exporters have the great potential to explore and capture the international trade markets of Belgium and EU countries through Belgium as well by exporting their diversified traditional and non-traditional export products.

Chairman PSGMEA Husnain Iftikhar Cheema said that Sialkot exporters have a great potential to explore and capture the international trade markets of Belgium by exporting their world class traditional and non-traditional export products.

For improving bilateral trade, Sialkot exporters suggested that exchange of trade delegations and one-to-one meetings of businessmen of both sides might be arranged. He revealed that there was no doubt to say that Sialkot-made Sports Goods, Surgical Instruments, Leather Products, Gloves of all sorts, Textiles Items, Sports Wear, Martial Arts Uniforms & Accessories, Musical Instruments, Kitchen Ware, Hollow Ware, Knives, Cutlery items and Military Uniform Badges etc.

could find a good market in Belgium. He said that both Pakistan and Belgium have always enjoyed cordial relations based on mutual trust and confidence in each other's expertise. He said that economical and financial development cooperation between Pakistan and Belgium goes way back, with trade investment crossing US $1 billion mark in 2017.

He said that there was still alot of potential for enhanced trade cooperation between both countries in areas like energy, infrastructure, food processing, chemical industry apart from textile and sporting goods industry.

Belgium is the sixth largest trading partner of Pakistan. Chairman PSGMEA stated that most of the sports brands and companies in Belgium were currently working with Sialkot sports industry and Belgium being a sports loving nation has a very special connection with the sports manufacturing industry of Sialkot.